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American troops advance through hedgerows outside Cherbourg after D-Day landings in Normandy during World War II.

The Allied invasion of Normandy, France during World War 2. Improvised port facilities being erected in "Operation Mulberry." Ships carrying troops and supplies pull up to the Mulberry piers. Troops and vehicles moving on the piers toward the shore at Normandy. A severe storm tears up the mulberry port facilities. A man crawls a rope invertedly to get to a ship. War materiel moving on the Normandy beaches. A map of Normandy. View of Seaport at Cherbourg, France. Allied and German forces moving to battle over the Cherbourg port. Large formation of Allied aircraft. United States troops battling Germans in hedgerows, on the way to Cherbourg. A United States soldier uses a SCR-536 Walkie-talkie while in hedgerow. Soldier smoking a cigarette in hedgerow. French farmers collecting hay with pitchforks. United States troops being welcomed by French residents. Meeting heavy resistance at outskirts of Cherbourg, the U.S. employs batteries of field artillery. Some infantry engaged in street fighting. Nazi German General Karl-Wilhelm von Schlieben surrenders to the American forces in Cherbourg.

Date: 1944, June
Duration: 2 min 32 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675060100
Preparations in England for the D-Day invasion of Normandy in World War II

World War 2 invasion of Normandy, France. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Marshal Joseph Stalin, and Prime Minister Churchill, meeting at Tehran, Iran, in December 1943. U.S. Generals George Marshall and Hap Arnold, at conference table. Closeup of General Dwight D. Eisenhower. Map showing defense areas of the German 7th, 15th and 19th Armies in Europe. Map showing ports at Brest, Cherbourg, Le Havre, Dieppe, and Calais. Cherbourg is highlighted. U.S. Army trucks, tanks, and artillery, stockpiled in England. Railroad train carrying M3 Stuart tanks. U.S soldiers leaving troop ships and marching to their camps in Britain. Allied troops practicing amphibious assaults on Southern coast of England. Formation of B-26 bombers.View from Allied aircraft flying low over German-occupied area. B-17dropping bombs over Germany. Bombs away view seen as bombs drop toward enemy targets. German fighter planes attacking B-17 bombers beginning in February 1944. Gunner in turret of B-17 firing at them. A B-17 exploding in the air. German fighter downed by B-17 gunner. Gun camera footage of German Bf 109 attacked from rear by gunfire. American soldiers in trucks, DUKWs, M4 tanks, and M8 armored Cars. Troops receive gas masks, waist life belts, field rations, and French money. May 30, 1944, American soldiers board tanks, trucks and other vehicles bound for embarkation points in England. Seen are Stuart M3 light tanks, jeeps, and M7 Priest tanks. M7 tanks are seen, equipped with intake and exhaust ducts. (At TC:11:39, U.S. M7 Priest tanks,equipped for deep wading, are seen passing the base of the Jubilee clock on the beachfront at Weymouth, on their way toward Castle Town in Portland for embarkation.) Transport ships are loaded at the embarkation ports. Trucks being backed onto LCT-453. U.S. Army infantry marching and boarding transport ships. Troops marching into LST 376 at Plymouth, England. Higgins Boats, from the USS Samuel Chase (APA-26) bringing troops to board her. Troops on deck of Attack transport, USS Joseph T. Dickman (APA-13). Barrage balloons overhead. Soldiers shooting craps on a troop ship deck. Coastguardsmen playing with a puppy dog. Gun crews on U.S. Navy warship being briefed. Soldiers field-strip and check their weapons

Date: 1944, June
Duration: 15 min 13 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046315
U.S. Military police (MP) direct trucks, tanks, amphibious vehicles at beachhead in Normandy, France, in World War II.

Activities of the U.S. Army Military Police. (Introductory scenes, from 1950 : A U.S. Army truck collides with a VW Beetle automobile in Europe. Local onlookers speak with the man and woman from the car. Local police arrive on scene. U.S. Army Military Police arrive and help resolve the matter with local police. ) U.S. Army Military Police insignia of two crossed flintlock pistols. A Military Policeman at attention. Military Police (MP) directing trucks and amphibious vehicles at a beachhead in Normandy, France, in 1944. U.S. Landing Craft at the beachhead. MPs directing military traffic in Town of Canisy, France.

Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 9 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070819
View from the air of grounded British glider aircraft used in invasion of France, strewn across large fields.

Daytime aerial view of grounded British Airspeed Horsa glider aircraft used during the June 6, 1944 D-Day invasion of France during World War II (Battle of Normandy). Many gliders strewn across a wide area of fields. View of a glider on the ground and British soldiers moving away from a glider. Two soldiers wheel bicycles away from a glider. Footage is from period between June 6 and June 9, 1944 (D-Day to D plus 3)

Date: 1944, June 8
Duration: 18 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675038171
The U.S. 3rd Armored Division on Landing Ship Tanks (LST) lands at Normandy in World War II

Allied troops land in Normandy during reinforcement operations in June 1944, in the weeks after D-Day, in World War 2. The U.S. 3rd Armored Division on Landing Ship Tanks (LST) heads towards Normandy. Tanks, trucks, vehicles and equipment on the LSTs. British crew and officers including the Captain on deck. The Captain looks through binoculars. A sailor looks through a telescope. The beach at Normandy filled with battle ships, carriers and Landing ships wait for the tide to recede off shore to avoid unloading equipment in deep water (landing ramps having been destroyed by earlier storms). Barrage balloons overhead. Soldiers build ramps on the beach. Half tracks, trucks and other vehicles driven off the LSTs and across the ramps on the beach.

Date: 1944, June
Duration: 2 min 19 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675020903
U.S. 9th Air Force B-26 aircraft drop bombs on communication lines in Normandy, France during World War II.

U.S. 9th Air Force air attacks against France on the D-Day during World War II. U.S. 9th Air Force C-47 Skytrain aircraft and gliders marked with invasion stripes on an airfield in England. Airborne infantrymen on the airfield. Men load equipment aboard a CG-4A glider. Infantrymen board the aircraft. Air borne medical units board the aircraft. Tug aircraft and gliders being joined by a line. C-47 aircraft taxi and take off towing the gliders from the airfield. Aerial view of the aircraft on the air field. The aircraft fly over a light house. Aerial view of an invasion fleet underway in the English Channel for the invasion of Normandy. U.S. Army Air Forces B-26 Marauder in flight over the English Channel. Ships and landing crafts at the Normandy beach. U.S. Army Air Forces B-26 Marauders blast communication lines in Normandy. Billows of smoke rises as bombs hit the targets. Aerial view of the invasion fleet heading towards Normandy.

Date: 1944, June 6
Duration: 6 min 8 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675077901